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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/49/4
Former Reference	D3311/122/25
Title	Letter from Rosalind E. Beaufort to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including on the false news about Sir John Franklin having been seen
Date	6 Oct 1849
Description	On her father still having no doubts about the story concerning the ships from the natives but having no belief in clairvoyance. Asks whether Sir Francis Simpkinson has any influence or interest at Gray's Inn in the appointment of a morning preacher there, and if so, whether Eleanor could ask if he would have any [influence] for her brother Augustus, anxious to become a candidate, now that the death of the Bishop of Norwich has meant a blow to hopes of preferment
Extent	1 sheet
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender	Rosalind E. Beaufort
Sender Location	19 Waterloo Crescent, Dover
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location	No address
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Format	Document
Term	Ethnic groups
	Indigenous populations
	Franklin Expedition (1845)

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